Finally, a mayor who roots against the Red Sox

Mayor Adams was rooting for the home team Friday — even though he isn’t really a tried and true fan.

Adams, an avowed Mets supporter since the team’s early days, said he’d be pulling for the Yankees before they took the field on Opening Day against the Boston Red Sox — the preferred choice of his predecessor, former Mayor Bill de Blasio.

“I want a Subway Series, you know? Let’s keep the money right here in New York. A championship team brings millions of dollars in revenue, it hires the restaurant workers and everyone that feeds off of the economy from tourism,” he said during an appearance on Brian Lehrer’s show on WNYC. “So we want the Yankees and Mets in the World Series.”

During de Blasio’s eight years as mayor, the city’s then-top Red Sox fan refused to set foot in Yankee Stadium, making an exception to that rule only once when he announced the ballpark would be used as a COVID vaccination site in February 2021.

Adams is a Mets fan, and while he said he was rooting for the Yanks on Friday, he also made it quite clear where his allegiances would lie in the event of Subway Series between the Amazins and the Bronx Bombers.

“I’m a constant Mets fan. I still have memories of being with my family in 1969 when they won the World Series,” he told Lehrer. “I will continue to be rooting for the New York Mets.”

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from Boston Herald https://ift.tt/hcj42l9